National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Oil Spill Detection Using NASA Active and Passive Sensors

NOAA and NASA

  • Sonia C. Gallegos and Robert A. Arnone (Naval Research Lab – Stennis)
  • William G. Pichel (NOAA/STAR)
  • Yongxiang Hu (NASA-Langley Research Center)
  • 14 pages
  • December 22, 2009

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Current Operational Status of Oil Spill Detection at NOAA
• Product is generated on an ad hoc basis by STAR,
• Timeliness is 1-2 days
• After data receipt, response is during normal working hours
• Accuracy of Product is unknown
• Not all data sources are exploited (mostly SAR)
Maturity of oil spill algorithms
• An ad hoc research product produced by manual analysis
• No oil detection algorithm using existing data is fully automated
• Interactive systems must be employed to minimize false
positives.

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